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: Frederick Gilmer Bonfils; Bonfils was the longtime owner and publisher of The Denver Post newspaper, which he purchased with Harry Tammen in 1895 and ran until his death in 1933. Bonfils was a rival of Walter Walker, owner of The Daily Sentinel and major Democratic Party operative in the State of Colorado. At one point, Bonfils caught a 6 or 8 pound trout and put it on display in The Denver Post window, also writing a story about it. Walker wrote a piece to Time magazine telling them that the fish was actually a beloved pet fish named Elmer from a resort in Wyoming, who had loved being pet when he came to the surface for food. According to the book Amole One More Time by Gene Amole, Bonfils was involved in a libel suit at the time of his death. Walker had leveled several accusations and names at Bonfils in a speech published by the Rocky Mountain News.

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